P.A.G.E. Analysis of Professional Journal Article Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: Most academic research writing is problem-based. To identify the purpose of your article, look for a statement of the problem for study. Usually you’ll find it in the first few paragraphs, often in a sentence that begins with “But,” or “However” and creates a contrast with previous research (for example, “Previous research has…. However, it has not yet explored….”).
1a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that sums up its purpose. “Bulky silicon-substitued alkyllithium compounds of the two types have been used to synthesize highly sterically hindered compounds of different elements.”
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose? -The purpose of this article is to show the processes and reactions of forming a new compound from another.
AUDIENCE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: Academic research writing has different audiences, depending on your major. Usually that audience is identified in the first few paragraphs (for example, “Education researchers have long been interested in….”) but sometimes the audience is implicit (not stated directly).
2a. Please write at least one sentence from your article that indicates its audience. - “In particular, compounds derived from these have been widely studied.”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
§I believe that the audience is others in the chemistry field looking for an explanation to perform an experiment in detail and to do it safely
GENRE
Text Box: READ THIS FIRST: In different majors, there are important differences in what counts as evidence, how a text is organized, and what kinds of language it uses. To find these differences, you will have to skim through the whole of your article.
3a. Evidence – What counts as evidence in this article? How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
- The reaction and preparation of the compounds to be experimented on.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article). Introduction, Experimental Section- broken into preparation and reactions, and results
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
They abbreviate the elements and different compounds being used, degrees, abbreviations for measurements.
Analysis of your professional journal article will prepare you to read similar texts in your major and to write your own professional genre for our class.
PURPOSE
that sums up its purpose.
“Bulky silicon-substitued alkyllithium compounds of the two types have been used to synthesize highly sterically hindered compounds of different elements.”
1b. In your own words, what is that purpose?
-The purpose of this article is to show the processes and reactions of forming a new compound from another.
AUDIENCE
- “In particular, compounds derived from these have been widely studied.”
2b. In your own words, who is the audience?
GENRE
How do you know?
(For example, are there statistics about the effects of a drug? Transcripts of classroom interactions? Quotes from interviews?)
- The reaction and preparation of the compounds to be experimented on.
3b. Organization – Are there sections/headings in this article? If so, list them below. If not, read the first sentence of each paragraph and try to identify shifts from one section to another.
(For example, there might be a section that gives background about prior research, and another that describes results or findings of this article).
Introduction, Experimental Section- broken into preparation and reactions, and results
3c. Style – Are there specialized vocabulary words or sentence structures in this article that are particular to your major? Give an example.
(For instance, Education uses terms like “differentiated instruction,” abbreviations like “IEP,” and sometimes uses passive voice “Research was conducted…”)
They abbreviate the elements and different compounds being used, degrees, abbreviations for measurements.